The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-01-01
The ssReforzns' Press and rhe
Governor.
shrgvgport journal.

Shreveport Journal
The so-called reform press Of Louis
lana, with whom our neighbor of the
Times trains, are constantly Prating
about the personalism Of the MeEnery
government. In shameless Disregard
Of truth and fair dealing they charge
that the Governor appoints to Office
only such men as are in full accord
with him. This is a glaring falsifca-
ton Of facts. Our neighbor, hailing
from Natchitohes parish, cannot be
ignorant Of the fact that the Governor
for the sake Of harmony in the party,
absolutely turned over his friends in
that parish, bound hand and foot, to
the tender mercies of his and their enc
mics. At the solicitation of the Match
itoChes parish delegation to the last
nominating Convention, he consented
to remove the returning officer Of the
parish who had been appointed on the
recommendation of the Governors
friends, and appoint in his stead man
in full accord with his enemies. This
act of maguanimity on the part of the
Governor cost him the supportand sym.
pathy of his old friends and did not at
all conciliate his enemies. And he is
a man of too much intelligence not to
have foreseen the consequences of
his act, but as Natehitoches man was
nominated on the ticket with himself
he made this concession as an act of
courtesy to him and, no doubt, with
the determination to prove to the peo-
pie Of the State that be was not will
ing to widen the breach in the party
merely to promote bis personal ends.
Meek and conciliatory as we are, we
said at the time that the Governor
was more magnanimous than we
would be under similar circumstances.
The anti-McEnery wing of the parish
were probably more bitter in their OPP
position than the people of any other
section of the State, and are SO to this
day, notwithstanding the fact that he
sacrafced his friends in the interest of
harmony and to preserve the autono-
my Of the party.
So far as Caddo parish isconeerned,
it is fact that cannot be successfully
controvertcd, that in the appointment
of police jurors he was guided entire
ly by the recommendation of the mem
bers of the lower house of the Legisla.
ture and of the Senator. The two
former bitterly opposed him, and the
latter voted against his denomination
as delegate in the State convention.
The result was, that of the ten police
jurors appointed, only one of them
had favored Gov. McEnery's nomlna-
tion.
Yet with these facts staring him in
the face, our neighbor PERSISTS III the
charge that the Governor only ap-
points his partisans to Office, and vet
never wearies in protesting that be is
too good a party man 10 perrert facts
in the interest of either one or the
other wing Of the Democratic party
in Louisiana.
Again; no State in the Union has
ever witnessed such campaign of
billingsgate and yItuperation as that
conducted by Democrats against a
Jruer AID more consistent Democrat
than themselves. There was scarcely
an epilhet too vile to be applied TO
Gov. McEnery by his enemies. There
might have been sumo excuse for this
# lie had been anenable TO the charges
preferred against him, but as not one
ol them has been or can he establish
ed, they can only be characterized as
infamous, slanderous aud disgraeeful
only to the party or men who made
them. Yetafter such campaign thess
men have the cheek TO get up vast
deal Of indignation because the Gov
ernor in majority Of instances exer-
cises the privilege of rewarding his
friends rather than his enemies. This
is mugwumpery run mad.